geico. just click away with our free mobile app. >>steve: the country of iran announced it successfully sent a monkey into space. that's a picture of it supposedly. and safely brought it back but with today's modern technology -- >>gretchen: why do countries like iran use primates as their pilot? i'm not believing they actually sent the monkey into space. >>steve: for our purposes, let's trust the iranians. joining us right now is nature nick and tarzan the squirrel monkey. also joining us right now, let's come on in, brian come on over here. brian has always fancied himself as the bird man of the show. >>brian: i want to re-create the moment. >>gretchen: we can't hear you. >>brian: i want to re-create the moment and see if there's synergy between us. >> he's looking at his reflection. >>steve: nature nick, this monkey you've got there, a squirrel monkey, the united states actually sent a squirrel monkey into space once upon a time? >> 1959 we sent a female and she was the first animal to make it safely in a suborbital flight and ma